“from The Sky Forever” [to say your land vanished]
to say your land vanished into thinness scrap under your feet
when the name feels the same in the mouth who is the most hysterical person
to say I was never meant to the origin moment do you remember laughing
be about poetry’s originating in childhood trauma when the first American boot
hit the ground in a cloud of dust maybe before that you’re killing me
Credit
Copyright © 2018 Kimberly Alidio. This poem originally appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review. Used with permission of the author.
Author
Kimberly Alidio

Date Published: 2019-01-28
Source URL: https://poets.org/poem/sky-forever-say-your-land-vanished